Originally Posted by MurphyWasRight
If not already ( probably is ) make it illegal to take carry on with you in evacuation.
That by itself does little but the announcement that in the unlikely event of an evacuation all carry on found outside the airplane will be confiscated as part of the criminal investigation would make people think.
Could add a bit of sugar by stating that returned carry on after evac would have a $100 reward attached to it.
The $100 reward is a great idea, even $50 would do, perhaps. Lots of people here are saying 'you'll never change human behavior" but the advertising industry doesn't see it that way: they change human behavior every day.
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True on changing behaviour, but of course they do spend a lot of money and repetition on it. The trick is to come up with something that is effective and essentially (statistically at least) no cost. I suspect that even $500 would be 'noise in the system' considering the relatively low occurrence rate.
Old 12th Aug 2016, 10:44
Tourist
1. You will need to make this a law in all countries. Good luck with that.
2. Do you think the law will find it possible to prosecute passengers acting under the stress of an aircraft crash? Good luck with that
1: Dont need a law passed in all countries, just enough that the announcement is believable, possibly use language such as 'laws and international regulations ...' to avoid having custom announcements per destination.
2: No need to actually prosecute the passengers, just impound the "evidence" for a week or two with maybe a $1000 fine to get it back.
Only apply it to items that clearly would fit only in overhead, underseat items such as purses and the like are much less likely to be a real threat.
The goal is just to make it less convenient to take it with you than leave it in the overhead.
As others have pointed out humans are actually quite good at making rational decisions based on available facts.